#if

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#details #documentation #fascinating #friendships #however

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#fun #i #know #lifts #place

My life is short. I can't listen to banality. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #life #life is short #listen #my life

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#another #because #childhood #complete #deal

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#confer #convinced #exist #greatest #honors

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#empty #into #life #make #out

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game. ↗

— Joe Namath

#figured #game #general #i #life

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment. ↗

— Joe Namath

#coach #comes #commitment #could #everything

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#alone #changing #constantly #foreseeable #foreseeable future

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters. ↗

— Joe Namath

#life #matters #recover #throwing #you